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Restorations: Coal, Smoke, and Time in London, circa 1700

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14th April 2023
Restorations: Coal, Smoke, and Time in London, circa 1700

Aleksandr Bierig Early modern London was the planet’s first coal-fired city. While the causes and timing of its transition to fossil fuel are still debated, historians have argued that the change was initially triggered in the early seventeenth century, when apparent timber shortages began driving up firewood prices in the…

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St. Martin’s Lane: Neighborhood as Art World

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14th April 2023
St. Martin’s Lane: Neighborhood as Art World

Stacey Sloboda Perched inside a window box, an artist in a loose smock and a skullcap bends over his unseen work, the head of sculpted putti peering over his shoulder (Fig. 1). The artist’s back is turned to an urban neighborhood dense with brick and plaster terraced buildings, older timber-framed…

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The City “en miniature:” Situating Sophie von La Roche in the Window

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14th April 2023
The City “en miniature:” Situating Sophie von La Roche in the Window

Anne Hultzsch Introduction When Sophie von La Roche (1730-1807), often referred to as the first female professional journalist writing in German, described Paris to her readers in 1787, she began with accounting for the role women had played in the history of this “Zauberort,” this “magical place”: “The love and…

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The Revolutionary Origins of the Flâneur

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14th April 2023
The Revolutionary Origins of the Flâneur

Richard Wrigley Although the figure of the flâneur—the leisurely, urban male pedestrian observer—is associated with France’s July Monarchy (1830-1848), it was already current throughout the 1820s. Yet it is striking that texts from this decade are unequivocal that the phenomenon had its roots in the Revolution. For Beauregard and Pain…

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The City and its Significant Other: Lived Urban Histories beyond the Comparative Mode

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14th April 2023
The City and its Significant Other: Lived Urban Histories beyond the Comparative Mode

Sigrid de Jong The eighteenth century saw an urge to draw comparisons between cities, most frequently between the two major European capitals, London and Paris. Their special relationship of rivalry, competition, and emulation found its vibrant expression in Louis Sébastien Mercier’s Parallèle de Paris et de Londres (ca. 1780): London,…

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